From Homer to Thucydides, plague provided a backdrop for drama

So much was lost, we don't even know what we're missing

There is nothing inevitable about the connection between an interest in the Greco-Roman world and being a posh white man

It's time to reassess one of Greek mythology's most famous characters

Painters can be acute readers of classical poetry

Ancient stories, whether we know them or not, have a kind of purchase in our consciousness. Just look at how our culture portrays stepmothers...

"Hyacinthus was struck, and died—but from the blood a lovely flower was born"

White supremacists deny the long history of non-Europeans in Britain, in the teeth of evidence literally carved in stone

Hermes, Trojan, Rubicon—for the Classically-minded, brand names can be a major source of amusement

The original myth is no less weird and insane than the UK’s current political situation—though a touch more sexually lurid